By Scott A. McGreal — 2012
Psychedelic drug phenomena do not justify radical new views of reality.
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A neurological explanation of NDEs remains elusive.
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Despite parallels, there are profound differences between DMT and NDEs.
Research shows hallucinogen found in traditional medicine ayahuasca produces similar feelings to those felt by people during near-death experiences.
This question is more than a mind-bender. For thousands of years, certain people have claimed to have actually visited the place that, Saint Paul promised, “no eye has seen … and no human mind has conceived,” and their stories very often follow the same narrative arc.
A new scientific study suggests strong similarities between near death experiences and the psychedelic drug.
According to personal accounts, a DMT trip is different to hallucinating on other drugs, such as psilocybin (mushrooms) or LSD, because it takes you some place completely different to this world, as opposed to modifying your relationship with the one you already exist in.
They cannot prove the existence of heaven or hell, but they can give us hope.
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are complex subjective experiences, which have been previously associated with the psychedelic experience and more specifically with the experience induced by the potent serotonergic, N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT).